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North Korea's donor fatigueThursday, September 25th, 2014
The Wall Street Journal reports on the difficulties the UN World Food Program faces trying to find supporters for its operations in North Korea:
The United Nations aid program for malnourished North Koreans may close after raising only a fraction of the money it needs to operate in the country, a senior U.N. official said in a call for donations.
"We may need to scale down or think about closing altogether," Dierk Stegen, the Pyongyang-based North Korea head for the U.N. World Food Program, said in an interview.
The agency, which has operated in North Korea since 1995, could shut early next year if there is no indication it will be able to raise needed funds by the end of October, he said. One complication is that North Korea's humanitarian crisis has been overshadowed by the conflict in Syria and Ebola outbreak, he said.
While North Korea is getting better at feeding its people, hundreds of thousands of young infants and their mothers remain chronically malnourished, he said.
Contributions from private organizations and the South Korean government in recent weeks have helped, but the program is far from its goal of $50 million, already a significant reduction from the original target of $200 million it set last year.
The North Korea food-assistance program has drawn flak from critics who say the regime takes advantage of the agency's largess, devoting its resources to developing its nuclear weapons program and constructing amusement parks while its people suffer. Critics also say the agency can't be sure its assistance is reaching the intended recipients.
Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington who has studied North Korea's food situation, said that the WFP's work in the country was "a disappointment—perhaps a terrible disappointment," arguing that the agency has put up little resistance even as Pyongyang restricts oversight from foreign aid groups.
"Outside humanitarian assistance will not work in North Korea unless it is 'intrusive'—and the WFP has no stomach for such work," Mr. Eberstadt said.
Mr. Stegen acknowledged past shortcomings in its ability to monitor the distribution of its aid, but blamed a lack of funding and cited recent improvements in its access inside the country. He said that the WFP can now get permission within 24 hours to visit any school or household that is receiving its aid. In the past, two weeks' notice was required.
Mr. Stegen said that criticism of a government's priorities isn't unique to North Korea, and urged donors to prioritize vulnerable infants over politics.
"Intervention and assistance on a humanitarian basis should be separated from political things," he said.
Earlier this month, South Korea's government approved $7 million in new funding to the WFP, its first such contribution since 2007. While South Korea's conservative government has talked tough on North Korea, it has also pursued a policy of "humanity" toward the North, particularly infants and young mothers.
The U.S., by far the largest donor to the WFP's North Korea work, hasn't contributed since 2009, when Pyongyang tightened its rules on monitoring food aid by restricting the number of Korean-speaking monitors allowed into the country, according to a U.S. Congressional Research Service report published in April.
The WFP's fundraising efforts have also been hampered by rising awareness of North Korea's human-rights violations. Earlier this year, a special U.N. commission published a landmark 400-page report which said the regime selectively starves its population based on factors like political loyalty, and recommended the U.N. Security Council refer Kim Jong Un and other senior officials to the International Criminal Court.
Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called North Korea's system of prison camps "unfathomable" and a sign of what he described as "barbarity, inhumanity—I think you can call it evil."
Mr. Stegen said North Korea had markedly improved its capacity to produce food for its people since a devastating famine in the 1990s. He said that fewer people in the country remain hungry today, even as the population has increased.
But he cautioned that the country's agricultural efforts have focused too much on producing rice and other grains, at the expense of protein. That has led to malnourishment of infants and children under the age of four, he said, putting them in danger of stunting, even as Kim Jong Un has made a public show of encouraging fisheries as a potential source of protein.
"For many of the children of North Korea, it's already too late," said John Aylieff, the WFP's deputy regional director for Asia. "They've been dealt a life sentence of impaired mental functioning and impaired physical development."
A drought earlier this year has also meant a throttling back of government rations to ordinary citizens, which fell to about 250 grams a day, Mr. Aylieff said. That is less than half the targeted rations, and the lowest in several years.
As a result, the aid agency is expecting a surge in acute malnutrition this year. "We hope potential donors will see the humanitarian imperative," Mr. Aylieff said.
Marcus Noland, an economist and North Korea expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said that given the WFP's funding problems, its ability to monitor its work would be limited.
"Trying to maintain an underfunded program in that environment is practically inviting an aid diversion scandal," he said. But the WFP's absence from North Korea would also likely exacerbate any food crisis.
"The advantage of having the WFP in-country in even a limited capacity is that they are pre-positioned to monitor conditions and respond if there is an emergency," Mr. Noland said.
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U.N. North Korea Food Program in Danger
Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Cheng
DPRK rice imports from China increaseMonday, August 25th, 2014
According to Yonhap:
North Korea bought US$7.02 million worth of rice from the neighboring country last month, up 115 percent from $3.27 million a year earlier, according to Chinese trade data from the Seoul-based Korea International Trade Association.
The amount also represents an on-month increase of 53 percent from $4.57 million.
The sudden increase in imports comes amid reports that the price of rice has risen sharply in the North.
According to the South Korean online newspaper DailyNK on Aug. 12, rice cost 5,800 won per kilogram in Pyongyang, up 1,550 won from the middle of July.
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N. Korea's imports of Chinese rice more than double
ROK aid to the DPRK in 2014Monday, August 11th, 2014
According to Yonhap:
South Korea said Monday it will provide North Korea with US$13.3 million in humanitarian aid, in another show of its resolve to separate inter-Korean military tensions from efforts to help the needy in the North.
The South has decided to offer $7 million worth of nutritional assistance to mother and child health services in the communist nation via the World Food Program (WFP), according to the unification ministry.
Seoul will also deliver $6.3 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) for its projects to ship essential medicine to the North, improve clinics and train related manpower there, it added.
"The government plans to tap the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund for the aid," ministry spokesman Kim Eui-do told reporters.
It is the first time that South Korea has offered assistance to North Korea through the WFP since 2007, he said. Last year, the South used $6 million to support the WHO's project in North Korea.
Seoul's new aid program is apparently to follow up on President Park's ambitious "Dresden Declaration" in March.
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S. Korea to offer US$13 mln in aid to N. Korea
DPRK -china trade dips slightly in H1 2014Monday, August 4th, 2014
According to the Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES):
Grain Imports Decrease, Rare-Earth Mineral Exports Increase in the First Half of 2014
It has been reported that Chinese grain imports in North Korea have fallen drastically in the first half of 2014. According to the Korean Foreign Trade Association (KFTA), Chinese exports of grain to North Korea totaled 58,387 tons in the first half of 2014, totaling a mere 47 percent of the grain exported in the first half of the previous year (124,228 tons).
China's most heavily exported grain product to North Korea is flour, which made up 68.8 percent (40,142 tons) of all total grain exports for the first half of 2014. China also exported 13,831 tons of rice and 3,420 tons of corn to North Korea. Corn exports did not even reach twenty percent of the amount exported at the same time last year (17,655 tons).
It is postulated that China's sharp decrease in grain exports to North Korea is due to the souring relations between the two nations in 2014. Another theory is that the decrease in exports could be due to North Korea's recent increase in agricultural productivity over previous years.
In the first half of 2014 China exported 109,531 tons of fertilizer to North Korea, 21.3 percent less than the amount exported during the same timeframe last year (139,161 tons). In the first three months of 2014, North Korea aggressively imported Chinese fertilizer at a rate of twenty thousand tons over its monthly average. However, this decreased markedly in the months of April, May and June.
Meanwhile, North Korea has been exporting large quantities of rare-earth resources (which are used in manufacturing high-tech products) to China over the last few months. Reportedly, in May of 2014, North Korea exported 550,000 dollars' worth of rare-earth ore to China. This figure more than doubled the following month, reaching 1.33 million USD in June.
This comes as a bit of a surprise, as North Korean rare-earth resource exports to China had come to a standstill after the first round of exports (totaling 24.7 thousand USD) in January 2013. Suddenly, after fifteen months, North Korea has exported 1.88 million USD worth of rare-earth ore (approx. 1.93 billion KRW, 62.66 thousand kilograms) over the last two months.
Since 2011, North Korea has in fact been exporting rare-earth carbonate mixtures to China; however total exports of these products have only reached 170 thousand USD over the last three and a half years.
North Korea has been placing attention on these underground rare-earth resources, of which the nation reportedly has ample quantities of in various deposits around the country. Recently, much effort has been put into surveying for deposits of these so-called "vitamins of the 21st century's high-tech industry." In 2013 a company for the development of rare-earth materials in North Pyongan Province was established with the cooperation of the international private equity firm "SRE Minerals."
In July 2011, the Choson Sinbo, a news affiliate of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, reported in an interview with top executives from the National Resources Development Council that rare-earth resource deposits in North Korea total approximately 20 million tons. The drastic increase seen in rare-earth resource exports can be attributed to North Korea's attempt to diversify its resource exports. In other words, the DPRK is investing in rare-earth material exports in order to reduce its dependency on other leading mineral exports such as anthracite, iron ore, and lead.
Exports of anthracite to China decreased by 23 percent in the first half of 2014 (compared to last year), totaling approximately 571 million USD. Iron ore exports, North Korea's second leading resource export, reached approximately 121 million USD in the same time period – a drop of 5 percent when compared to the same time period last year.
According to the Korea Herald (Yonhap):
North Korea's trade with its economic lifeline China fell 2.1 percent on year to US$2.89 billion in the first six months of this year, data compiled by South Korea's government trade agency showed Monday, in another sign that strained political ties between the two nations have affected their economic relations.
During the six-month period, North Korea's exports to China declined 3.9 percent to $1.31 billion and imports slipped 0.6 percent to $1.58 billion, according to the data provided by the Beijing unit of South's Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA).
There were no shipments of crude oil from China to North Korea from January to June, the data showed.
"Despite the six-month absence of oil shipments, the scale of North Korea's decline in imports is minimal," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, North Korea's exports of rare earth to China jumped 153.7 percent on year during the January-June period, the data showed, without providing the value of the exports.
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N. Korea's trade with China falls 2.1 pct in H1
Korea Herald (Yonhap)
Food imports from China fall in 2014Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
According to Yonhap:
North Korea's grain imports from China tumbled more than 50 percent on-year in the first half of this year, data showed Wednesday, amid speculation that relations between the communist allies are not like before.
North Korea imported 58,387 tons of cereal crops from China in the January-June period, down 53 percent from 124,228 tons recorded a year earlier, according to the data by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).
By type, flour topped the list with 40,142 tons, or 68.8 percent, followed by rice and corn with 13,831 tons and 3,420 tons, respectively, added the Seoul-based agency.
Analysts say the remarkable decrease may be attributable to reportedly strained ties between the two sides in recent months.
"Of late, North Korea has appeared to move to reduce its economic dependence on China and diversify its foreign economic partners," said Lim Eul-chul, professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University.
Kwon Tae-jin, researcher at private think tank GS&J, said it might have been more affected by Pyongyang's increased crop yield.
"North Korea's stockpile of crops seems to have grown due to a good harvest last year.
Meanwhile, China's fertilizer exports to North Korea also plunged 21.3 percent to 109,531 tons during the January-June period this year from a year earlier, said KITA.
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N. Korea's grain imports from China halve in H1
Rice prices starting to increase…Friday, July 25th, 2014
According to the Daily NK:
Market rice prices in North Korea held steady throughout the "farming hardship period" in April and May; however, prices have recently started to rise. In towns near the border, including those in the provinces of Yangkang and North Hamkyung, rice has reached 6,000 KPW per kilo, inside sources report.
"From the end of last week, the cost of rice began to rise, reaching 6,000 KPW," a source in North Hamkyung Province reported to Daily NK on the 25th. "All five of the markets in Hyesan, including Yunbong, Masan and Hyesan, have seen the same sudden leap."
"People are used to small fluctuations in rice prices, but they don't often see a quick 1,000 KPW increase," she went on.
A source in Yangkang Province confirmed the increase. "Just a few days ago, rice was 5,000 KPW, so imagine my surprise when I went to buy it yesterday," she said. "It seems that even the sellers don't know why it happened."
"They don't need to be sure why prices have risen; simply, if one raises the price of her rice, the rest will follow suit," she added.
The source went on to say that she examined conditions across the city on Daily NK's behalf, checking markets in areas that could have been in a different condition. "Because miners are receiving their rations, I thought maybe prices around mines would be stabler," she reported, "but in Masan, one of those areas, it was also 6,000 KPW."
Last month, rice cost 4,300 KPW in Pyongyang, 4,500 KPW in Sinuiji and 5,050 KPW in Hyesan. Moreover, prices actually went down last week, to 4,250 KPW, 4,380 KPW and 4,800 KPW respectively. But now they have increased by 1,000 KPW within a week.
Daily NK sources speculate that the reason for the sharp increase is due to reduced distribution of rice and below-average yield of early new potatoes. Of course, April and May are called the "farming hardship period" for a reason; in other words, supply-side limitations could simply be filtering down to the retail market.
According to the source, local people are concerned that prices could rise to 7,000 KPW, the high point reached during the mourning period for Kim Jong Il at the start of 2012. However, others are less worried, saying, "Since fall is right in front of us, prices won't rise any more."
Although rice prices usually vary in accordance with fluctuations in currency exchange rates, recent ups and downs have not followed this pattern. Despite the fact that the North Korean Won is currently 30 KPW stronger per Chinese Yuan higher than it was last month, rice prices have sharply increased.
"In fifteen days, people will harvest barley and have corn that was planted earlier. So rice prices won't go up any more," the source in Yangkang Province said. However, the source in North Hamkyung Province voiced the concern that "flooding from the monsoon may influence yields of barley, corn and other grains."
Analyzing the situation, Kwon Tae Jin of GS&J Institute said, "Rice is never abundant in Hyesan; it must have been affected by drought in eastern parts of China. Travel restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of diseases may have contributed to the increase as well."
"Once the corn is harvested in August, prices will stabilize for a while. But a poor yield overall could cause them to start rising later," he predicted.
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Markets See Quick Spike in Rice Prices
Daily NK
Kang Mi Jin
On the availability of Chinese and North Korean riceTuesday, July 22nd, 2014
According to the Daily NK:
As volumes of rice bought and sold in North Korea continue to rise, stores operated by foreign-currency earning entities and market vendors are entering into greater competition for customers, inside sources in North Korea report.
"Goods including rice, beans and flour are flowing in steadily from China," a source from North Pyongan Province explained. "In the olden days the arrival of July would have meant the worst conditions for rice, but this year there have been no big shifts and prices have stayed stable."
A second source in North Hamkyung Province corroborated the state of affairs, saying, "Every day a number of freight trucks loaded with rice come in through the customs house at Hyesan, and there's the smuggled stuff, too."
"It used to be the norm for rice to retail in the jangmadang [market]. Stores only traded it wholesale," the North Pyongan Province source went on. "But now stores are retailing it, too. Any time rice comes in through customs, buyers are there lining up to take it."
"Stores" run under the auspices of foreign-currency earning entities began to spring up Pyongyang and other major cities toward the end of 2006. They were given formal permission to sell rice and corn alongside manufactured goods, thus in effect ending the state's official dominance of domestic grain circulation.
The rice sold in markets comes from two sources: China, and domestic farms. Stores mostly sell rice originating in China, whereas market vendors tend to purvey rice from a variety of sources, sources say. The ratio of Chinese to North Korean rice sold in public markets is roughly 6:4.
Lower socio-economic groups and restaurants catering to the general public tend toward Chinese rice, which is plentiful and cheap but considered insufficiently glutinous. On the other hand, affluent groups are the main purchasers of rice grown in North Korea. The stickiness of the product is higher, but so is the price: roughly 500 KPW more per kilo than Chinese varieties.
"First to attract customers, and then to turn them into regular visitors, both shops and markets are competing on price and service," one source explained. "The stores sell their rice for 100 or 200 KPW less than the jangmadang, but customers there cannot negotiate, and the seller never throws anything in for free."
However, this appears to be changing. According to the source, stores have now begun to grant greater price autonomy to shop officials, allowing for haggling over price and other forms of value-added.
"Customers can negotiate prices and get home or business delivery if they purchase more than 100kg," one source reported. "It's just like in the market now. Shops have started providing extra services, and delivery men, eager as they are to earn money, have started crowding outside storefronts waiting for customers where once they would have waited on the road."
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Price War as Stores Take on Nimble Vendors
Daily NK
Seol Song Ah
USDA publishes "International Food Security Assessment, 2014-24″Wednesday, July 16th, 2014
You can download the full report here (PDF).
Below are some comments and data on North Korea from the report:
"After Afghanistan, North Korea has been the most persistently food insecure country in the region as grain output stagnated from 1995 until 2010. Only recently has some growth been exhibited. In 2014, 70 percent of the population is estimated to be food insecure; this is projected to decline to 40 percent in 2024. Since grain production growth is projected to remain low—around 1 percent per year—during that time, the improvement is driven primarily by low projected population growth of 0.4 percent per year."
And this table:
There is additional data in the report. Here is coverage in the Daily NK.
China donates US$1m in food assistanceTuesday, July 8th, 2014
According to Yonhap:
China donated US$1 million to the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations' food assistance body, to help feed malnourished North Korean children and pregnant women, a U.S. report said Tuesday.
The donation will be used to provide food to around 1.8 million North Korean babies, children and expecting mothers, according to the report by the Washington-based Voice of America.
China has previously donated the same amount of money for WFP's North Korean assistance program last December.
Since the beginning of 2014, WFP has collected $49 million in donations for North Korean food assistance from countries such as Switzerland, Australia and Canada.
The amount accounts for only 35 percent of what WFP needs to accomplish their food aid programs for North Korea in the first half of this year.
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China donates US$1 mln to help feed N. Korean children


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This isn't Suffokate anymore ;-;
so sick of deathcore bands talking about "the crown"
worst band ever
Digging: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Suffocation >>>>>>>>> Suffokate
imo most bands should just stop if they have no remaining original members
before someone blasts me with 17 examples of decent bands with no original members I did say "imo" and "most bands"
Says the worst user ever.
pretty sure you have like 2 friends on this site lmao
wait so i'm not the worst user ever anymore
fuck yer thx suffokate
lol i like betray he's aight
I haven't checked new Volumes, I will though dude those guys put on a hell of a live show
Going to two warped dates in a couple weeks so I'll catch them at least once
aahhhh shit who else did you see? who sucked and who ruled
Makes sense that Nocturnal thinks he's the new mappy.
That fucking BLOWS about Attila and BoO. Parkway is always good, same for TSSF. I will probably see CG one of the days, throw down a bit and leave underwhelmed because they are so fucking horrible live. Not a big fan of EID. I'll see TGI as they're one of my favs and OM&M is amazing live. SWS puts on a good show but their new album completely blows.
lol what's up with the close up of those bee stings at 2:11 shit song
is this the dude from defiler?
Digging: Somos - Temple of Plenty
that dark haired girl.
@youth, I thought the same thing too. Defiler are fucking sweet live.
great so- i'm kidding
the video is fucking dreadful
and the song isn't much better
but these guys' last album was cool
Not really good by any means but I was shocked to hear a blast beat and some riffs. I don't remember them doing anything more than breakdowns and occasional melodeth/metalcore riff offs.
Well considering that there isnt anyone left in the band that made their last albums...
have you ever listened to Return to Despair, game?
I bought it to give to a dying charity that is Suffokate haha. I like the third track because of the melodic riffing even though it was simple. Otherwise it was only ok to me.
LOL they actually show his face making that noise at 0:09 oh God
lol I noticed that also
I hate the video but I love this song. Vocalist is great.
Hoover was better
Hoovers highs were grating.
Well this guy doesn't do them at all so from a lows standpoint hoover m/
I like this guy more. His growl is less beastly but his tone varies more than Hoovers did.
Interesting. To me his tone doesn't vary at all. But hey glad you dig the new stuff.
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The Gatehouse at Rossholme
Cottage | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 7
|Key Info
The Gatehouse is a light, spacious, attractive two storey holiday home, located within the 5 acres of lawns and landscaped grounds at Rossholme in the picturesque village of East Brent. With lovely views over open countryside, the property is rural but not isolated; it is in a sheltered position, right in the lee of Brent Knoll, a 450ft high hill that has the remains of an ancient Celtic camp on its summit with views of the Quantocks, Bridgwater Bay, the Bristol Channel, the Mendips and South Wales. With easy access to the M5, and Bristol International Airport, the village is only minutes from the coast; Weston-Super-Mare and Sand Bay have sandy beaches and family attractions, whilst the smaller resorts of Clevedon and Burnham on Sea retain an atmosphere of a bygone era. Axbridge is 8km and the caves and gorge at Cheddar, 9 km. For walking and cycling, the Quantocks, the Mendips, the Somerset Levels and Exmoor are close by and there are several excellent golf courses in the area.
There is private parking and a private barbecue area and the outdoor heated (at cost) swimming pool (during the summer) and hard tennis court are shared with the owners and with guests in Rossholme Country House. Shop 1 mile, pub 600 yards.
The ground floor is open plan and includes a Living Room with double sofa bed/Dining Area/Kitchen with wooden floor and separate downstairs WC. The first floor has 2 bedrooms; 1 large double with additional bed and shower room en suite and 1 twin bedroom with separate bathroom.
The accommodation sleeps 4-7 people. Elec inc; Gas CH and gas by meter reading; Cot, H/chair; Gas and elec cooker; F/freezer; Bed linen and towels inc. Freeview TV, DVD, CD, M/wave; W/machine and t/dryer in shared external laundry room (£3 charge). Shared 5-acre landscaped grounds. No smoking. Friday to Friday.
|Sleeps up to 7, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Burnham on Sea 5 km
|Will consider
|Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|Car advised
|Nearest Amenities
|2 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Bristol International Airport 20 km, Nearest railway: Weston super Mare 10 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|Pets welcome, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, CD player, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Washing machine
|2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 En suites
|1 Sofa beds, Single beds (3), Double beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seats for 7, Lounge seats for 7
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Balcony or terrace, Shared garden, BBQ
The West Country region
Somerset lies to the south of the City of Bristol in the South West of England; it has an extensive coast line and includes a wide variety of scenery including the Mendip Hills, the Quantocks and the Somerset levels. Pilton is the home of the world famous Glastonbury Festival and Bridgwater is the home of Carnival in Britain and takes place during November. Yeovilton has the Fleet Air Arm Museum and in the same area, is the Haynes Motor Museum. The region is well renowned for its production of cider and Somerset Brandy. The Shepton Mallett Showground is the site of the Bath & West show in May/June and the whole area offers a wealth of interesting places.
This is an historic area, close to several battlefields, including Sedgemoor, the site of the last battle on English soil. Wells,the smallest city in England has a beautiful cathedral and Bishop's Palace and there is a wealth of charming villages. Cheddar Gorge and caves as well as those at Wookey Hole add a dimension to visits. The sea is close by with the seaside resorts of Burnham on Sea, Clevedon and Weston super Mare as well as lovely beaches at Brean, Uphill and Sand Bay. The new pier at Weston super Mare is well worth visiting.
There is plenty to do in the area including excellent golf courses, animal parks, water parks as well as bird watching on the Somerset levels, walks, cycling, vineyards and so much more.
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9 Jun 2014
"Marvellous weekend"
We had booked Rossholme House for a large family gathering and realised we were short of accommodation and we were lucky enough to be able to book the Gatehouse as well. What a lovely house it is. M… More
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"A lovely house in a beautiful location."
The location is perfect - very pretty countryside but good access to towns and the motorway. We loved watching the lambs and squirrels in the morning while eating our breakfast. The house is quite sim… More
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You got disco balls here, dudes with coiffed hair, gals with high waisted skirts, and vinyl carts full of the 40's and 50's. I visited three times during a summer in Berlin to listen to visiting bands play Calypso, Folk, and killer 20's Louisiana Jazz, with muted trumpets and all. But the finest offering here is the Burlesque. It puts a** in sassy. Try not chew a finger off.
Booze offerings are limited but this is not place to droop over the bar. Except maybe to watch "Das Frauenhaus" playing on one of the walls. Mad I tell you.
Every time I give this place another chance it lets me down. Don't be fooled by the gathering of people outside, they are most likely staff trying to make a scene to lure people in. Multiple times I've paid the 10€ entrance and even asked if there were people inside and the door policy is to lie and just get you in. Once you're in they want 4€ for an Augustiner and 7€ for a long drink. Even the coat check is over priced. The bathrooms are dirty and the music is simply internet radio, nothing unique. This place is always a trap and I recommend you NOT fall for it.
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I wish that I lived around the corner, or that they had a spare room for rent on the weekends, just so I wouldn't have to worry about making the trek back home in an exhausted state.
Had a blast here when in Berlin. A total dive, good music, good DJ cheap drinks and close to the U-Bahn.. Went on a Monday night and had a blast.
Great night club that seems to have most off the reviews in German which can only mean a good think if you are trying to avoid the ex pat crowd
A pretty good club if you're into their 60's style music. I personally like the atmosphere and the relaxed nature of the patrons. The interior is typical club but geared toward live acts. Live right across the way from the place so easy enough to get to. Prices are also fair so all-in-all worth a visit. They have a Kicker in back if that's your thing too and I'm glad they have more than one bar as when it's packed it'd be a nightmare to get drinks. Place fills up quickly and smoking is allowed so keep that in the back of your mind if visiting.
If the right music is on, this place is perfect for dancing!
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The story of our timeApril 30,2013Those of us who have spent years arguing against premature fiscal austerity have just had a good two weeks. Academic studies that supposedly justified austerity have lost credibility; hard-liners in the European Commission and elsewhere have softened their rhetoric. The tone of the conversation has definitely changed.
My sense, however, is that many people still dont understand what this is all about. So this seems like a good time to offer a sort of refresher on the nature of our economic woes, and why this remains a very bad time for spending cuts.
Lets start with what may be the most crucial thing to understand: The economy is not like an individual family.
Families earn what they can, and spend as much as they think prudent; spending and earning opportunities are two different things. In the economy as a whole, however, income and spending are interdependent: My spending is your income, and your spending is my income. If both of us slash spending at the same time, both of our incomes will fall too.
And thats what happened after the financial crisis of 2008. Many people suddenly cut spending, either because they chose to or because their creditors forced them to; meanwhile, not many people were able or willing to spend more. The result was a plunge in incomes that also caused a plunge in employment, creating the depression that persists to this day.
Why did spending plunge? Mainly because of a burst housing bubble and an overhang of private-sector debt but if you ask me, people talk too much about what went wrong during the boom years and not enough about what we should be doing now. For no matter how lurid the excesses of the past, theres no good reason that we should pay for them with year after year of mass unemployment.
So what could we do to reduce unemployment? The answer is, this is a time for above-normal government spending, to sustain the economy until the private sector is willing to spend again. The crucial point is that under current conditions, the government is not, repeat not, in competition with the private sector. Government spending doesnt divert resources away from private uses; it puts unemployed resources to work. Government borrowing doesnt crowd out private investment; it mobilizes funds that would otherwise go unused.
Now, just to be clear, this is not a case for more government spending and larger budget deficits under all circumstances and the claim that people like me always want bigger deficits is just false. For the economy isnt always like this in fact, situations like the one were in are fairly rare. By all means lets try to reduce deficits and bring down government indebtedness once normal conditions return and the economy is no longer depressed. But right now were still dealing with the aftermath of a once-in-three-generations financial crisis. This is no time for austerity.
OK, Ive just given you a story, but why should you believe it? There are, after all, people who insist that the real problem is on the economys supply side: that workers lack the skills they need, or that unemployment insurance has destroyed the incentive to work, or that the looming menace of universal health care is preventing hiring, or whatever. How do we know that theyre wrong?
Well, I could go on at length on this topic, but just look at the predictions the two sides in this debate have made. People like me predicted right from the start that large budget deficits would have little effect on interest rates, that large-scale money printing by the Fed (not a good description of actual Fed policy, but never mind) wouldnt be inflationary, that austerity policies would lead to terrible economic downturns. The other side jeered, insisting that interest rates would skyrocket and that austerity would actually lead to economic expansion. Ask bond traders, or the suffering populations of Spain, Portugal and so on, how it actually turned out.
Is the story really that simple, and would it really be that easy to end the scourge of unemployment? Yes but powerful people dont want to believe it. Some of them have a visceral sense that suffering is good, that we must pay a price for past sins (even if the sinners then and the sufferers now are very different groups of people). Some of them see the crisis as an opportunity to dismantle the social safety net. And just about everyone in the policy elite takes cues from a wealthy minority that isnt actually feeling much pain.
What has happened now, however, is that the drive for austerity has lost its intellectual fig leaf, and stands exposed as the expression of prejudice, opportunism and class interest it always was. And maybe, just maybe, that sudden exposure will give us a chance to start doing something about the depression were in.
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The agent of Elie Baup, the former Toulouse, St Etienne and Bordeaux coach, said his client had applied for the vacancy at Ewood Park. But no official approach has been made by Blackburn for Paul Ince, the MK Dons manager. Ince does not hold the Uefa Pro Licence which is compulsory for managers in the Premier League, albeit Avram Grant, Glenn Roeder and Gareth Southgate received dispensation to take charge of clubs in the top flight without the qualification.
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Merchant of Venice literature essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Merchant of Venice.
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- Christianity and Judaism in The Merchant of Venice: Imperfect Faith
- The Anti-Semitic Question in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
- Guffaws of a Shakespearean Nature
- The Role of Daughters in 'The Merchant of Venice'
- A Comedy of Horrors: Mercy Gone Mercenary in The Merchant of Venice
- Challenging the Verbal Contract: The Trial of the Rings in The Merchant of Venice
- The Merchant of Venice: All That Glisters Is Not Gold
- Venetian Prejudice
- The Victorious Woman in Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare and Homosociality: Defying Elizabethan Comformity
- The Monster in the Man - Rediscovering Shylock
- Shakespere's Typological Allegory: Legalism in The Merchant of Venice
- Winning Bassanio
- Questioning Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
- Discuss the function of cross-dressing in Renaissance drama.
- A Critical Analysis of Egeus, Hippolyta and Shylock in Filmic Shakespeare
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If you have a positive character, you are more equipped to guide and control your future.
– Dr T.P.Chia
To be happy is to think positively, confidently and optimistically.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Always keep your head held high and stay positive. Remember that there's always light at the end of the tunnel. :)
It is a positive attitude towards life that makes dreams come true.
Positive thinking creates ingenuity and originality. Negative thinking cripples imagination and creativity.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Positive thoughts make people more creative and powerful, mentally and emotionally.
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Positive thoughts give birth to our good values and beliefs, and increase our thinking power positively. Negative thoughts impact our values and beliefs negatively, and reduce our abilities to think clearly, rationally and optimistically.
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Positive thoughts are angels of the mind. Negative thoughts are witches of the mind.
Positive thoughts enrich the power of the mind, provide a deep sense of reasoning, rationality and optimism, and contribute to a meaningful, happy life.
Positive thinking has the power to shut up negative thoughts.
Believe and you can achieve.
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There's always a better day and that day is always today.
Whenever there's a negative,
There's always a positive.
Just can't live that negative way…make way for the positive day!
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Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow!
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Revising Paragraphs Help (page 2)
Revising Paragraphs
This lesson on the revision process shows you how to revise paragraphs for more effective organization and transitions. You'll also learn how to strengthen individual paragraphs.
The next step in re-visioning looks at your essay with a stronger lens, examining it at the paragraph level. The first question to ask about paragraphs is also a "big picture" question:
- Are you paragraphs in a logical and effective order?
- Does each paragraph have only one controlling idea?
- Are there effective transitions between ideas?
- Do special paragraphs fulfill their functions?
Once you've addressed this question, you can look at each paragraph individually with the following questions in mind:
Checking Your Organization
If your ideas don't flow logically, they'll be difficult for your reader to follow.Make sure those ideas are placed within the essay in order in which they make sense. Seven organizing principles were discussed in Lessons 6 and 7:
- chronology
- cause and effect
- spatial order
- analysis/classification
- order of importance
- comparison and contrast
- problem → solution
As you read your paragraphs checking for organization, consider the following questions:
- What organizing principle holds the essay together? One overlying organizing principle should be clear. If you can't identify one, look carefully at how you presented your ideas. If you haven't used an organizing strategy, chances are your essay will feel disjointed to readers. Think about which strategy makes the most sense for your subject and purpose.
- Is this the most effective organization for your subject and purpose? Once you've identified your organizing principle, consider whether it's the best one for your essay. For example, if you've used the block technique for a comparison and contrast essay, you might consider whether the point-by-point method would work better instead.
- Do any paragraphs or sections disrupt this organizational pattern? If there is a break in your organizational structure, it should not only be intentional, but also serve a legitimate purpose. Perhaps you decided to keep the block comparison and contrast. In one section, though, you slip into the point-by-point mode and compare two items directly. Unless there is a solid reason for the inconsistency, such as making sure that those two items stand out as more significant than the others being compared, change that section to the block technique. Consistency makes your essay easier to read and understand.
Revising Individual Paragraphs
To check the paragraphs that make up your essay, you'll need to examine your writing with a stronger lens than the one you used to for "big-picture" issues. You will be determining whether each paragraph has just one main idea, whether there are adequate transitions between paragraphs, and if your introductory and concluding paragraphs fulfill their distinct purposes.
One Controlling Idea
A paragraph is a group of sentences about one idea. That idea should be stated in a topic sentence, which is typically the first or last line. Topic sentences not only guide your reader, but they also link the sentences in the paragraph together by stating the idea that they all relate to. If you can't locate a topic sentence, should the main idea be stated in one, instead of implied by your examples?
If there is a topic sentence, does each sentence relate to it? In the lying with silence essay, each paragraph contains only one main idea except for the sixth paragraph. Here, the writer describes the lie and its consequences in one paragraph. It would be more effective to dedicate another paragraph to the consequences. The revised paragraphing then looks like this (topic sentences are in bold):
I'm guilty of silent deceptions, too. Last year, I discovered that my friend's boyfriend was seeing someone else. I kept quiet about it because I didn't want to hurt my friend. A few weeks, later, someone else told her about the wo-timing—and I told her I knew about it.
She couldn't believe that I deceived her like that. She felt just as betrayed as if I'd lied to her face about it. Her boyfriend's deception ruined their relationship. My deception destroyed our friendship.
If you've identified more than one idea in a paragraph, you should probably break it into two paragraphs. But before you move text, make sure each idea is clearly related to the thesis. If it's not, it needs to be reworked or deleted. (If you didn't catch it when you were revising the big picture, here's another chance.) Remember the importance of maintaining focus in your essay—unrelated paragraphs not only get you off track, but also often confuse readers as well.
Once you've identified the controlling idea of each paragraph, check to see that each idea is sufficiently developed. Topic sentences, like thesis statements, make assertions about your subject. And those assertions need support. Look carefully at any paragraph that consists of only one or two sentences. Chances are, they're seriously underdeveloped. The only time you should have a one-sentence paragraph is when you intentionally decide to emphasize the idea in that sentence.
Transitions are the words and phrases used to move from one idea to the next. They help your words flow smoothly and show readers how your ideas relate to each other. In shorter essays, a phrase is usually enough to transition from one paragraph to the next. In longer essays, a sentence or two may be required to guide your reader to the next idea.
In the lying with silence essay, notice how the writer uses transitions to move from one paragraph to another. The first sentence of the sixth paragraph, "I'm guilty of silent deceptions, too" connects the previous example (the man who bought a stolen necklace for his girlfriend) to the next example, the writer's own silent lie. Then, the beginning of the second sentence uses the transitional phrase for example to lead readers into the support for that paragraph. In addition, the phrase a few weeks later provides a transition in the middle of the paragraph, connecting the writer's decision to keep silent with her friend's discovery of the deception.
To demonstrate how important transitions are, here's the fourth paragraph of the essay with transitions removed and then repeated with transitions intact (and underlined):
These silent lies can have consequences. A man who buys a stolen necklace for his girlfriend could lose her trust, which could be detrimental to the relationship. He could also face criminal charges. Even she could be in trouble for possession of a stolen necklace.
These silent lies can have consequences. For example, a man who buys a stolen necklace for his girlfriend could lose her trust, which could be detrimental to the relationship. More importantly, he could also face criminal charges. In addition, even she could be in trouble for possession of a stolen necklace.
Introductions and Conclusions
Both of these paragraphs must fulfill specific duties within the essay. While you're revising, you'll need to look closely at them to make certain they function properly.
- As you reread your introduction, ask:
- Does it provide the context needed to understand my thesis?
- Does it clearly state the main point of my essay?
- Does it set the tone for the essay?
- Does it grab my reader's interest?
Notice how the introduction to lying with silence accomplishes each of these four tasks. It provides context by quoting Adrienne Rich's claim about silent deceptions. It clearly states the thesis in the last two sentences. It also sets the tone by using words like deceives and devastating, which will be repeated in the essay. In addition, it grabs the audience's attention by beginning with a thought-provoking question.
- As you reread your conclusion, ask:
- Does it restate my thesis in a new way?
- Does it offer a new understanding?
- Does it provide a sense of closure?
- Does it arouse my reader's emotions?
While the lying with silence essay does a good job with the introduction, its conclusion needs work. Notice how it simply restates the thesis instead of putting it in different words. It does offer a new understanding, but goes too far by introducing a contentious new issue instead of providing a sense of closure.
In Short
To revise on the paragraph level, first check for your overall organizing principle. How have you arranged your paragraphs? Is this the most effective organizing strategy for your essay? Then check individual paragraphs to make sure they have only one relevant and fully developed idea. Next, check for transitions both between and within paragraphs. Finally, check to see that your introduction and conclusion fulfill their important functions.
Exercises for this concept can be found at Revising Paragraphs Practice.
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Then, it becomes the victim of a planetary disaster when the Romulans fly a shuttle at warp speeds into Coridan in 2155.
Then it doesn't get to become a Federation Member State until 2266, and almost causes a Federation civil war over it.
And how it's either severely damaged or actively sterilized by the Borg in 2381.
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